1. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?
(a) It is handwritten by a person who is either a child or an invalid.
(b) Each line is in a new color of ink.
(c) The type is faint and barely recognizable.
(d) Margaret's name is mispelled, and there is no return address.

2. In what way did the bookstore help in Margaret's education?
(a) Margaret's mother read to her for hours as they worked in the shop.
(b) The fascinating people that entered the store taught her about the world.
(c) Margaret's favorite teachers came in and spent extra hours tutoring her.
(d) She first learned her alphabet because the books were in alphabetical order.

3. What promise does Margaret ask of Winter before committing to the writing of her biography?
(a) Margaret must be allowed to have freedom to come and go from the house.
(b) Winter must tell Margaret three facts that can be validated in public record.
(c) Winter must let them write outside in the garden, in the flowers.
(d) Winter must be willing to offer editing and writing advice for Margaret's own writing.

4. At what age does Margaret discover she was a twin, and that this twin died at birth?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) As an adult, as she is narrating this book.
(d) Fourteen.

5. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?
(a) Historical fiction, especially from the thirteen century.
(b) The lives and memoirs of obscure writers.
(c) Families torn apart by war and violence.
(d) Legends and superstitions centered on the number thirteen.